Category: Arts

  • One Drop of Love at Smith College Smith College Hallie Flanagan Theater, Theatre Green Room 122 Green Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 Friday, 2015-09-18 and Saturday, 2015-09-19 (Two Performances!) 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, incorporating filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story of…

  • In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…

  • How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace The New Republic 2015-09-12 Liesl Bradner Photo: John Turner Before Liberace, there was Korla Pandit. He was a pianist from New Delhi, India, and dazzled national audiences in the 1950s with his unique keyboard skills and exotic compositions on the Hammond B3 organ.…

  • My Music Is My Soul, My Language Is My Armor Psychology Today 2014-12-02 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D. Stanford University Byron’s story of identity, healing, and empowerment “One night at a pub I heard the sound of traditional Okinawan folk music, and it was like being hit in the head with a hammer. The impact was like…

  • Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to Louise Erdrich News from the Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2015-03-17 Winner to Participate in This Year’s National Book Festival Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that Louise Erdrich, author of such critically acclaimed novels as “Love Medicine,” “The Last Report on the Miracles…

  • First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut BBC News 2015-09-11 Lizo Mzimba Europe’s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London. The Chineke orchestra has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white.…

  • Being ‘hafu’ in Japan: Mixed-race people face ridicule, rejection Al Jazeera America 2015-09-09 Roxana Saberi Among Japanese, the perception of pure ethnic background is a big part of belonging to the culture TOKYO — Ariana Miyamoto was born and raised in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. But she said most people in her homeland see…

  • Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…